Re: ipv6nd-02.txt & autoconfig

["Eric W. Gray" <[e-mail]>]

Bert,

You wrote:
> 
> [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> > I think you mean "Use of SEL is only for native ATM comms, Classical IP-over-ATM,
> > LAN Emulation and MPOA".
> 
> I suppose, although I find it hard to believe that these other schemes
> _must_ have 20 bytes of ATM address to play with. But _yes_ for native
> ATM, of course. (I mean, LANE and RFC-1577 really must make use of SEL?
> Or else what?)
>

Or else use a new ESI or use a physically different box for logically closely
related functionality.  This argument really comes along way too late for it
to make sense not to include this exception as Andrew suggest - we are not
talking academic issues here, there are actual implemetnations out there that
use SEL this way...

> 
> > And how many ESIs shall we all burn into our adapters, bridges and routers?
> > How about 13? 42? 65536? 16777216?
> 
> How about 256 would give you everything that lamented SEL byte would have
> provided?
> 

Are you offering to purchase new organization identifier numbers for all those
vendors that need to ship a lot of these?  Are you offering to placate their
customers that have already expressed dismay at the wanton use of ESIs (or some
other 48 bit address element)?

>
> Bert
> [e-mail]

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Eric Gray